The Image Of Tatar In The English Romantic Poetry And The Russian Romantic Poetry

Western literature used to label the oriental elements as distant, romantic and extremely attractive.Especially at the time of the great upheaval of economy and politic of western society, scholars and ideologists used to imagine and describe all things of oriental with a notion of the other in an opposite side of his own environment, in order to establish a field to vent their accumulated emotions, re-recognize, analyze and criticize oneself.This thesis has arranged, analyzed and resolved the following issues based on the clue of the images of The Tatar in English and Russia Romanticism poems of nineteenth century:1.Who are Tatar really related about in history or in culture? What is the relationship between the Tujue, The Mongolian and the so-called The Tatars in the history? 2. How the Tatar is described in English and Russia Romanticism poems of nineteen century? 3. What is the significance and value of the research on images of the Tatar for history and the present?Therefore, the first chapter is mainly about the origin of Tatar, and the relationship among Tatar, Tujue and Mongolia formed later based on historic materials:from a perspective of chronological order, Tatar and Tujue are both northern nomadic people owing to the same age and the same region. For a long time of Genghis Khan from BC third century to A.D. thirteenth century, tribes of Tujue and ones of Mongolia had been striving for hegemony. Until Mongolian unified the Northern steppe in thirteen century, every nationality was unified as the Tatar people by Mongolian, which was broadcasted far to the Eastern Europe.The second chapter is mainly about three outstanding English poets of romanticism of nineteen century——Byron, Shelley and Coleridge for exploring the elements and images of Tatar in their works. The Oriental Tales of Byron is related to the discussion of the vague conception of the Tatar people by western people; The Revolt of Islam of Shelley, it can be seen that the attitudes of the western to the Tatar people are strange, reject and terror; the Kublai Khan of Coleridge describes the utopia in a dream in the name of a Mongolian khan. According to materials above, this chapter will analyze and trace reasons for the emergence of images of Tatar in those works.The third chapter mainly discusses the image of the Tatar people in poems of Pushkin, who is honored as "the sun of Russian poems",and analyzes the Tatar people’s images specifically in three important works——Prisoner of the Mountains, To the Kalmyk Mongolian Lady and To fountain of Bach s Sarah’s palace.The fourth chapter summarized characteristics of the tatar image in the romantic poetry mainly in image learning methodology, leaning slightly the Tatar in romantic poetry as the essence of the social collective imagination,concluded means of this image in the romantic poetry, traces the formation of comparative literature in the context of globalization.